Zohar School of Dance

Zohar School of Dance offers jazz, ballet, modern, contemporary, and musical theatre dance classes. The program also includes a Summer Dance Intensive, Luigi Style Class, Luigi Technique Teacher Certification, and additional activities such as the Zohar Performance Series, ZTalk, and Zohar Getaway.

Founded in 1979, Zohar School of Dance has offered jazz, ballet, and modern dance classes in Palo Alto since 1979. The organization is a non-profit known as Zohar School of Dance and Company. Its studio is equipped with theatre lighting and is used as an intimate performance space as well as for classes, workshops, and rehearsals. The founder and artistic director is Ehud Krauss, who studied dance with Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Robert Joffrey, Gus Giordano, and Luigi in New York, and performed as a soloist and principal dancer in Europe, Canada, and the United States. The program is directed by Daynee Lai-Krauss and Vivian Sam. Zohar offers adult dance classes in jazz, ballet, modern, tap, and voice. Zohar is dedicated to making dance accessible, inclusive, vibrant, relevant and integral to its community, and to inspiring the individual through the study of dance while encouraging artistic development in both the individual and dance community. Zohar is very committed to community involvement and supports the dance community through a performance series that brings together new and established artists in performances held in its space and by providing individuals with a professional facility to create and present performances. The studio is available to community members and artists as an intimate performance space.

Last updated March 22, 2026.